Well after deleting the a/c and a.i.r stuff i need to clean the engine bay up some, i finally did that today..

Looks pretty good, i think; i will take more pics during the day light.

I also cut right through my pipes in front of the cats and i am now running open manifolds, sounds pretty great. Still waiting for my exhaust to arrive, but for now i am having fun being extremely loud..

Well thats my exciting day today, later!

 

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The engine bay looks good, just need some motor dress up now.

 

yeah, it looks better than the night pics show.

 

looks pretty good

 

dont be runnin around to much with the open manifolds, you might burn up your valves...


engine looks good, especially without the air stuff

 

looks good.

 

really o crap, well i still have the pipes going to the manifolds, i just cut the pipes as close to the front of the cats i could; will that still hurt them since its still alot of pipe going to the manifolds.

 

Without ruining your thread, I (and many many others) have had no problems with this. Search the exhaust board. I know I drove my LO3 around all summer open manifolds w/o any problems (besides avoind all law enforcment).

 

i ran my car with just the manifolds and y pipe and didnt hurt anything. i doubt ull do anything

 

Is your valve cover on wrong?




Anyway, looks good!

 

officer for some reason they cut themselves

 

I dont think they are on wrong, at least i never had them off, they are stock factory centerbolts ones.

I can finally see them, after all the dirt removal

 

yea i cut everything from where u cut urs off back on my car and ran it like that for a few days. it sounded wicked.

 

you just made one cut and they pulled apart that much? or did you bend it a tad? Looks good.

Brian

 

Looks good.

 

well this is after the cat but i have exhaust cutouts and i ride around with them open, i have one on my formula and my 95 z, i think it sounds good, just dont hammer it around cops and you will be fine, its great to get at a red light next to a stang or honda and buzz them like a f-14 fighter jet


nice engine bay !

 

you should be alright, i wasnt sure where you cut it...just as long as you dont get all that cold air rushing into the heads....my buddy did that on his 89 formula 305 tpi, and and to go through his heads... heh

 

yeah i think i will leave the rest right there,

umm after i cut the last pipe, it kinda just moved like that.

so exhaust still kinda flows through the dual cats and out the rear pipes, but most of the exhaust and fumes comes out the slots now.

thanks for the compliments guys.

 

Looking good MD! Any plans to polish the pendulum or runners? Looks very clean!

 

yeah after my suspension and exterior mods, i am going to try and find a set of slp runners and a plenum so i can try and polish them or just buy them polished and ported

while i have them off i was thinking about getting newer injectors and an adjustable fuel pressure regulator.

 

Looks good. I had all that crap out too to put my headers on, looked so much cleaner, but I need my AIR stuff and I can't live without AC

 

How did cold air rush into your friends headers? Was he driving backwards???

 

What did you use to clean the engine?

oo time to paint the water pump

 

When you turn the engine off, if you are running open headers/manifolds, the engine literally sucks cold air through the the pipes and into the heads, when that 60* air meets your heads that are 250* bad things can happen, but as far as I have noticed as long as you have your y pipe on you should be ok, I drove around for a week while I was waiting for my cutout to come in with just the headers and y pipe and everything was fine.

 

I had open headers, with my car in a garage that was 20-30 degree's all winter. I started it 2-3 times a week...no problems for me?

 

And what about the people that only have headers, like drag racers? Only people's friend's cousin have this problem.

 

^ LMFAO!!

 

day time pics! o yeah

 

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....:lala:

we used greased lightning full strength, and then we used gunk citrus engine bright (engine detailier).

 

Oh geez, isn't it a little dumb to be dragging out the old wives tales?

 

looks alot better in the daytime. good job cleaning it up. if you really want it to look good try to paint the manifolds, or are you getting headers with your exhaust system?

 

Jim,

When you say you are getting a new exhaust, do you mean a cat back? If so, you are going to have to have that cut you made rewelded back together, that's the wrong spot to cut.

 

i mean full exhaust.

slp 1 3/4 non air headers, coated; the y-pipe is for the dual cats.

also i bought the slp catack for the 91 1/2 - 92 cats.

so once i put those in, i guess i need to go to a muffler place and get some new pipes to replace the the cats made up and my exhaust should be complete and pretty nice sounding.

 

I have those same headers on my car I think you will be happy with them. If you can have them coated by jethot there sterling coating will really brighten up your engine bay. I hope to have mine done sometime this year.

Good Job on the engine bay!